It has become an annual tradition: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., will spend a healthy chunk of each Dec. 23 airing his grievances on Twitter.

No, he isn’t being a Grinch when he does this. Quite to the contrary, he is celebrating Festivus, a parody holiday popularized in the 1997 “Seinfeld” episode “The Strike.” One of the traditions of this pseudo-holiday — which has become all too real — is that individuals will publicly air their grievances, a ritual that Paul has taken to Twitter with a regularity that would put Frank Costanza to shame.

Below are the grievances that Paul saw fit to share with the Twitter-verse for Festivus 2018.

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GOOD MORNING! Welcome to everyone’s favorite holiday, #Festivus! pic.twitter.com/bZEUyPID1b

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

I’ve got a lot of problems with you people, and now you’re gonna hear about them! pic.twitter.com/sahSMrsdml

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

I’m going to start out with a grievance against the entire foreign policy establishment of Washington DC, who 2 years ago were swearing that Donald Trump was going to start multiple nuclear wars or something.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

Now they are mad because he is STOPPING two wars. How about you just admit you hate the President, love war and have been wrong for the last 20 years on every part of foreign policy?

Consider that my Christmas present. You don’t have to get me anything else.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

I’m on some Sunday shows this morning, I hope you’ll tune in to @CNNSotu and @FaceTheNation to hear some serious policy discussions.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

I’ll be back later this afternoon for some serious, and not so serious grievances, along with lots of my Festivus Waste Report. So come on back later!

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

Oh, by the way, before I go – Die Hard is a Christmas movie, don’t @ me pic.twitter.com/UukKhRCzCB

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

So we are back with more #Festivus goodness. pic.twitter.com/k8tPeEU4g0

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

One of the things I hate most about Washington is that they have literally NO IDEA how to spend your money. That’s why I do waste reports, and do a FESTIVUS WASTE REPORT with some of the worst offenders of the year. Here are some of the worst in waste.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

Everyone's favorite frisky quail are back with an update on how much money they blew: https://t.co/vbTkpbKVOc pic.twitter.com/KjPL4fKzvt

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

The USAID spending $18 mil to promote tourism….in Egypt: https://t.co/vbTkpbKVOc pic.twitter.com/SBbcUU2uDi

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

$2 mil on daydreaming: https://t.co/vbTkpbKVOc pic.twitter.com/IWWDtK3kyg

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

$75k to throw lizards around with a leaf blower: https://t.co/vbTkpbKVOc pic.twitter.com/nA7ZA9JdCA

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

So of course, instead of fixing waste like this and reforming government, the geniuses in Congress decided to have a fight over how much MORE money they were going to “spend” aka borrow from China.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

Speaking of which, buried in the foreign aid reports last year, I discovered something — we give foreign aid to China. So government is so dumb, it is literally borrowing money from China, to give it back to China, while paying interest on it.

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

This is actually my grievance with liberals. They want the government to do more and more, take over more healthcare, more education — I mean you seen what it ALREADY is doing?

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 23, 2018

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